Why Socrates died : dispelling the myths / Robin Waterfield.
2009
K434.S6 W38 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Why Socrates died : dispelling the myths / Robin Waterfield.
Edition
1st American ed.
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
Description
xxv, 253 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
The trial of Socrates
Socrates in court
How the system worked
The charge of impiety
The war years
Alcibiades, Socrates and the aristocratic milieu
Pestilence and war
The rise and fall of Alcibiades
The end of the war
Critias and civil war
- Crisis and conflict
Symptoms of change
Reactions to intellectuals
The condemnation of Socrates
Socratic politics
A cock for Asclepius.
Socrates in court
How the system worked
The charge of impiety
The war years
Alcibiades, Socrates and the aristocratic milieu
Pestilence and war
The rise and fall of Alcibiades
The end of the war
Critias and civil war
- Crisis and conflict
Symptoms of change
Reactions to intellectuals
The condemnation of Socrates
Socratic politics
A cock for Asclepius.
Summary
Robin Waterfield presents Socrates as a deeply moral thinker whose convictions stood in stark relief to those of his former disciple, Alcibiades, the hawkish and self-serving military leader. Refusing to surrender his beliefs even in the face of death, Socrates was determined to save his native Athens even as the city-state was tearing itself apart and falling into moral decline.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-245) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
K434.S6 W38 2009
Language
English
ISBN
9780393065275 hardcover
0393065278 hardcover
0393065278 hardcover
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